Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN exciting campaign Tor Gne eiecblOQ
Of new Sobranje is in progress in Bull
garia. 1t is reported that Russian money
is being freely used to influence the re-
suit.
A CHINESE transport has been wrecked
on one of the Pescadores islands. Three
hundred soldiers and the captain and
crew, with the exception of one man,
were drowned.
A LARGE number of Jews in Russia have
been sentenced to Siberia and other places
of imprisonment for arson in burning out
to get insurance.
ARTICLES of merger and consolidation
were fled at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 9th
for creating the New York, Chicago & st.
Louis Railroad Company. The president
is Daniel W. Caldwell, of Cleveland, Q.
system to the West.
IRISH landlords have hit upon new
plan to check operations under the plan
of campaign. They are attaching bank
ing deposits and company shares of nom
paying tenants. In the Dublin courts on
the 9th, the judge granted writs of at
tachment against Sharp, one of the three
tenants in public company.
BARON Won SCLAEzER has presented to
the Pope jubilee gift from the German
Empress. The present consisted of a set
own handiwork.
FIRE at Payne, O., on the 2sth, de-
stroyed a row of business blocks. The
loss is divided among twenty or more
persons, and is estimated at $75, 900;
partially insured.
DUKE DE VERAGUA, q descendant of
Christopher Columbus, writes to the
editor of Staten Island IN. W paper,
favoring the proposed exposition on the
island, to commemorate the four hun
dredth anniversary Of the discovery of
America.
A DISPATCH from Paris to the London
Chronicle says Germany intends to large
ly compensate the widow of Bignon, the
game-keeper shot by the German frontier
guards.
A TELEPHONE company with a capital
stock of SIC, 000, 900 has been Incorporated
at Indianapolis, Ind. The company pro-
pose to manufacture the telephone patent
ed by Herbert L. Todd, of Washington.
THE National Encampment, G. A. R.,
began its regular business session in st.
Louis on the 2Sth, and General Fairchild
delivered his annual address.
THE purchase of bonds by the Govern
ment on the 18th amounted to $253, 300, of
which $153, $50 were 1-2s and 500, $50 were
4-per-cents. This makes the total amount
purchased under Acting Secretary Phomp-
sons latest circular, So, 156, 400.
SERGEANT TEEPLE, Company F, Fifth
United States infantry, stationed at Fort
Smelling, who had been at st. Paul, Mimi,
for several weeks drinking heavily, cut
his throat with a razor on the 2sth, and
died shortly afterward.
Mr.. MILLER, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, denies that he intends making a
raid on the brewers and making an
analysis of their beer.
SEVERAL French princes have purchas-
ed estates at Cracow, and intend to be-
come Russian citizens and enter the Rus
sian army.
THE K1uez Zeitung (Berlin) announces
that the Sultan of Zanzibar has allotted
the whole coast coded to him by the agree
ment of November, 1866, to Englishmen.
Germans are abandoning all authority in
return for annual payments.
IT is rumored that Colonel Sir West
Ridgeway, lately returned from his duties
as head of the commission to settle the
Afghan boundaries, will assume the office
of permanent secretary to Ireland, re-
signed by Sir Redvers Butler.
THE largest tenant on the Marquis of
Lansdowne's Luggacurran es tate has re-
deemed his holding by paying the amount
of the judicial decree and costs. His ex-
AN ammonia tank in John Freiz's brew
cry, No. 242 Scholes street, New York, ex-
ploded on the 2Sth, and a bolt pierced the
body of VIM. Rentz, the engineer, killing
him instantly. He was forty-five years
old, and lived with his family at Ridge
wood, Long Island.
FRANK A. STEVENS, a dealer in stoves
and tinware at Minneapolis, Mimi, made
an assignment on the 2Sth to s. A. Booth.
No statement Of liabilities or assets could
be obtained. Stevens represents Fuller,
Warren & Co., manufacturers of the we'll
known "Stuarts" stoves.
The President started from Washington
on his W estorn trip on the morning of the
3Oth.
ABOUT four hundred G. A. r. vetrans
visited Lincoln's tomb on the 10Th.
"JENNY LIMBS" illness has developed
into paralysis, and she is not expected to
live long.
DIR. REIFF gave some strong anti Gould
testimony on the 29th, before the Pacific
Railway Commission.
SIR JOHN POPE HENNEssEY is about to
retire from public life to his newly-pur-
chased castle in Ireland.
THE Franco-German shooting incident
has chilled the newly developed friend
ship between Russia and Germany.
JACOB SHARPE must go to Sing Sing, the
ply sician appointed by the court having
decided that his health will not be preju-
diced by his removal.
PoLYDoRE DE KUPER, a Bulgarian by
birth, and strong Roman Catholic, has
been elected Lord Mayor of London.
n. P. PHELPS, of Hartford, Mich, was
killed by a railway accident at Nation,
ILL.,, on the 18th, while returning home
from the G. A. r. encampment at st.
Louis.
COLONEL RIDGEwAY has a paper in the
Nineteenth Century Mandatory of Russia's
civilizing influences in Asia, which it is
thought will operate detrimentally to his
popularity in British Government circles.
CARDINAL GIBBONS arrived in st. Paul
on the 18th. Carriages were taken at the
depot for Bishop Ireland's residence,
where an informal reception was held.
PRINCE KAMATsU, uncle of the Mikado Of
Japan, accompanied by his wife and suite.
arrived in Constantinople on the 18th.
The party, who are guests of the Sultan,
are lodged in the imperial kiosque.
ELECTIONS for members of the Servian
Skuptchina were held on the 18th. Re-
turns so far show the election of twenty
four Liberals and thirteen Radicals.
A PLow manufacturers trust was
formed at Chicago on the 10Th, about
thirty Western and Northwestern manu-
facturers signing the agreement. The
trust will exercise the usual iron-clad re-
striction on the trade.
AFTER being out three hours, q Milwau-
kee jury, on the 10Th, convicted j. G.
Hoelzel of poisoning his uncle, Fred Lett.
The evidence was circumstantial. The
young man tried to divert suspicion to his
aunt, as Lett and his wife had frequently
Quarrplad. Hoalza1 Aad but oort